Berthoud Living Center is located in Berthoud, Colorado. It looks like this facility is a well below average nursing home. A score in this range indicates we found a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Berthoud. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Berthoud Living Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Note: Berthoud Living Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we did not have many favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall score, it earned a respectable government inspection report this year. It received a decent grade in that area with a B-. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.
Nurse Quality
We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's next best category was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at is long-term care, was this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 58.454105 percent of its residents. This is significantly below the national average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berthoud Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Berthoud Living Center, 5.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Berthoud Living Center, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained a fall leading to serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Berthoud Living Center, 2.14% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic can also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Berthoud Living Center, 17.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Berthoud Living Center, 12.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Berthoud Living Center, 3.81% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Berthoud Living Center, 84.99% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Berthoud Living Center, 15.45% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Berthoud Living Center, 19.26% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Berthoud Living Center, 1.08 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Berthoud Living Center, 19.26 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Berthoud Living Center, 12.03 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Berthoud Living Center, 75.71% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mckee Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.38 miles away2000 Boise Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 669-4640
- Medical Center of the RockiesAcute Care Hospitals 8.55 miles away2500 Rocky Mountain Avenue Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 624-2500
- Longmont United HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.11 miles away1950 Mountain View Ave Longmont Colorado 80501Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 651-5111
- Banner Fort Collins Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.13 miles away4700 Lady Moon Drive Fort Collins Colorado 80528Voluntary non-profit - Other(970) 821-4000
- Poudre Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.29 miles away1024 S Lemay Ave Fort Collins Colorado 80524Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 495-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Loveland Central Dialysis (Dva)6.29 miles away1453 N Denver Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 12 (970) 663-4607
- Loveland Dialysis (Fmc)7.87 miles away2940 Ginnala Dr Loveland Colorado 80538CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 663-9155
- Northern Colorado Home Therapy Dialysis (Fmc)8.42 miles away5285 Mcwhinney Blvd #190 Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 4 (970) 667-0596
- Kidney Center on Main (Ara)9.45 miles away2144 Main St Ste 2 Longmont Colorado 80501Dialysis Stations: 14 (303) 485-8911
- Longmont Dialysis (Dva)9.53 miles away1715 Iron Horse Dr Ste 170 Longmont Colorado 80501Dialysis Stations: 18 (303) 485-4084
- Kidney Center of Longmont (Ara)11.76 miles away1960 Ken Pratt Blvd Ste A Longmont Colorado 80501Dialysis Stations: 20 (303) 485-7100
- Northern Colorado Kidney Center (Fmc)17.44 miles away2107 S. Timberline Rd Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 482-2161
- Davita Fort Collins Dialysis17.86 miles away1601 Prospect Parkway Suite 180 Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 13 (970) 493-0753